Jonathan Winters died today. He was my first comic hero in HS + college - a guy so dangerously funny he opened the doors to modern comedy.

LOS ANGELES -- Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio ...

LOS ANGELES Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio native ...

Jonathan Winters, the rubber-faced comedian whose unscripted flights of fancy inspired a generation of improvisational comics, and who kept television audiences in stitches with Main Street characters ...

HIS FACE has the quivering consistency of unrestrained Jell-O. Great white teeth march across his cavernous mouth like tombstones across a cave entrance. His stumpy body looks as if a grand piano had ...

(Reuters) - Comedian Jonathan Winters, star of TV shows and movies like "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," and " The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," died on Thursday at age 87. * ...

Jonathan Winters, whose breakneck improvisations inspired Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and many others, died Thursday, April 11 at his California home of natural causes. FILE - This May 6, 1997 file ...

Comedian Jonathan Winters, whose breakneck improvisations inspired Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and many others, has died at age 87. Longtime family friend Joe Petro III says Winters died Thursday ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio ...

Longtime family friend Joe Petro III says Winters died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes. Winters was a master of improvisational comedy, with a grab bag of eccentric ...